Old things in the south
Chapter 89 "Wild Girl" and "Mr. Serious"
Chapter 89 "Wild Girl" and "Mr. Serious"
Around 1951, one day Father Fang Hao brought one of his students to the Abbey.At that time, Father Fang was teaching in the history department of National Taiwan University, and this female student was a student of the history department.She is a young man who loves literature and art, and that is why Father Fang brought her here.At that time, I hadn't edited the supplement, but I often contributed articles to newspapers with a nickname!Since then, this third-year girl who loves literature and art often comes by herself.She often dresses up in jeans and a white shirt, and rides a men's bicycle with a beam. When getting on and off the bike, she stretches her legs and steps up and down from behind.She is not big, healthy and lively, and a bit wild, so I used to jokingly call her a "wild girl" afterwards, and she didn't object. "Wild girl" is very comfortable to come to my house to talk and laugh, but if He Fan is around, she seems unnatural. Maybe He Fan's seriousness in front of strange young people makes people daunting! "Wild Girl" has been calling him "Mr. Serious" in letters to me, until one time (1957) when she read He Fan's essay "A White Hair" published in a literary magazine abroad, the letter did not come. Said: "...Mr. Xia's article "A White Hair" is humorous and elegant. Unexpectedly, Mr. Xia has a serious face, but he is full of humor. I want to change his nickname! Smile." Actually She didn't really change her nickname to Mr. Serious, but after she got married, she believed that her husband was also called "My Mr. Serious".
After talking for a long time, who is this "wild girl"?Yu Lihua is also.She and I have been dating since 1951, nearly 40 years, from her growth, adulthood, maturity, fame, and even becoming a grandmother. The line is broken, but the state of mind knows each other well.Yu Lihua is really one of the unusual literary friends I have made in this life.
In September 1953, Yu Lihua graduated from National Taiwan University and was about to study abroad. I was pregnant with my youngest daughter Zuwei at the time, and I went to see her off with a big belly.When I got to her house, I didn't go in, I just sat on the wooden steps by the lattice door in the porch and had a heart-to-heart talk with her.Since I met her, in addition to exchanging opinions on literature and art—reading, opinions, favorites, etc., other family situations and trivial life are also topics of conversation.She was about to leave, so of course she talked more, when her mother came out, she was startled when she saw it, and blamed her daughter for not asking me, who was pregnant, to sit up.
At that time, most of the international students went abroad by boat, and Lihua was the same. It took nearly two weeks before the boat arrived in Hawaii. She couldn’t resist going ashore and sent me a postcard. The picture was a canoe on the shore of Waikiki, which was in 1953 October 10nd.I still keep her first letter after going abroad. It has been 2 years. Lihua will feel very surprised, right?On a small square letter, her impressions of the sea were written densely and bumpily:
...I have lived on the boat for two weeks, and I have never felt tired of gazing at the never-ending sea. Its color is different day and night. At night, under the starlight, although it feels bigger and more terrifying, it is also more moving. I really hate my clumsy Pen, I can't express my love for it.I often miss you. When I arrived in Honolulu, I bought this picture. I love that quiet beauty very much. Do you like it?I tried to write an article "Sea Journey" in the past two days, but I always felt that the words were not enough. I will send it to you after writing. Promised - don't be lazy, write to me, okay?I value your letters more than those boys write to me.Hope to read your long letter soon after arriving in the United States...
I transcribed it with a magnifying glass, so I took the trouble to record it in full. One is to prove that I have kept letters for decades, which is no less than her habit of keeping a diary since she was 15 years old.In addition, it also shows that although Lihua is going to study abroad, she is still full of writing. From Xiao Fangfang's letter, we can see her literary and artistic atmosphere.Before going abroad, she only wrote a few short essays and published them everywhere, and she was not well-known, but after a few years after going abroad, she achieved her writing goal every month and every month, and she shined brilliantly!When she was studying, writing, getting married, and raising children, she always nagged to "Sister Haiyin" in her letters.
Li Hua went abroad in 1953, and we didn't meet again until 12, 1965 years later, when I was invited to visit the United States. She was already the mother of three children.At the time, her family lived in the town of Evanston, home of Northwestern University, near Chicago.I remember that I flew directly from Boston to Chicago, and as soon as I got out of the airport, I heard a friendly, familiar, and beautiful Shanghai accent "Sister Haiyin"!It turned out that Lihua came to pick me up at the airport in person, and she hugged me, so happy!
Although she is a mother of three children, her temperament has not changed. When I came back from the United States, I wrote a book "A Guest in America", which describes her like this:
…Being a mother in the United States can no longer work, but Lihua happens to be writing at home, so after living in the United States for 12 years, other people's Chinese has deteriorated, but she is diligent in writing, and her works are more exciting than each one.For an American housewife with three children, writing is not something everyone can do!She took me to her house for a day, and I saw two manuscripts with different pages on two desks in her study, so I asked her what was going on?She said that one was translating manuscripts and the other was creating novels, and it was amazing that the two tasks were carried out at the same time.Lihua is really the most diligent female writer. She is young and energetic, and takes care of housework. Sometimes she has to drive five or six times a day to pick up and drop off her children. She is really a dynamic woman...
The above is what I wrote about her more than 20 years ago, and that was also her most prosperous age.After I returned to Taiwan from the United States, I founded the monthly magazine "Pure Literature" in 1967. Lihua and the late female writer Ji Zheng not only submitted the best works to "Pure Literature" for publication overseas, but also attracted subscribers for me overseas. , hired writers I don’t know to write on my behalf, which made this magazine very rich from the very beginning. Lihua is one of the literary friends who have contributed a lot. Ji Zheng wrote the long novel "Over the Sea", and Lihua has several Wonderful short story.
This time it was Yu Lihua who wrote to me saying that she was about to publish a book called "Yu Lihua's Selected Works" (short stories) and asked me to write something for it.She said that this book is a selection of short stories of her important works spanning 20 years, all of which were published in Taiwan, and several of them were published in the monthly magazine "Pure Literature" ("Friendship", "On Liujiazhuang" ), her works have spanned 20 years, and our friendship has spanned nearly 40 years. I seem to have no reason to reject her, but most of the things I have written in the past few years are memoirs. When I write, I just search for information through letters and photos; The articles are always miscellaneous and mother-in-law, but it is more meaningful when my daughter Xia Zuli visits her.
Lihua once asked in a letter (1957) after arriving in the United States: "... have the little sisters grown up? The one with long eyelashes must have looked beautiful?..." The girl with long eyelashes is Xia Zuli, when Lihua went abroad, Zuli was six years old. When I wrote this letter, Zuli was ten years old. But when Lihua returned to Taiwan in 1971, Zuli had already graduated from university and was working as an editor and reporter for Taipei Women’s Magazine. up.
Zuli interviewed sixteen female writers for the women's magazine, and later wrote a book titled "Their World".Zu Li is a hard-working reporter. She only conducts interviews after earnestly studying the writer’s works. Therefore, her works can indeed be interviewed and write the author’s state of mind and thoughts. Now I will extract Yu Lihua’s interview notes written by her. Some works that can represent Lihua's writing, thoughts and concepts, so that readers can have a deeper understanding of Lihua, can also be regarded as our "mother and son"'s common understanding and understanding of her!
◎After going abroad for nearly 20 years, Yu Lihua has changed from a female student to a mother of three children.The life in a foreign country has honed her to be more capable, stronger and more energetic, but she still does not lose her enthusiasm and sensitivity.
◎Yu Lihua's article has a thorough description of human nature and a sharp observation of life.But it always makes people feel that she is more inclined to the dark side of life, and many of her works will make people feel very heavy after reading.
◎In her novels, there are also many conflicts in marriage, conflicts in love, and tragedies of uncombinable love affairs.Her view on marriage is that she does not agree with the marriage system, but believes that before there is no better way, only marriage can maintain the balance between men and women.
◎Yu Lihua is such a frank woman.She once said that no matter what she does, speaks or writes, she relies on her feelings. Her person and her works give people a real feeling, which is one of the reasons why she can deeply attract readers.
◎She is a passionate, sensitive, aggressive, and energetic woman, and her own shadow can be seen more or less in her works.
◎When talking about life, she said: "I think life is a tragedy. Even if there is comedy, it is just the other side of tragedy. But people will not give up reversing the fate of this tragedy. Maybe this is the way people will make progress. "
(End of this chapter)
Around 1951, one day Father Fang Hao brought one of his students to the Abbey.At that time, Father Fang was teaching in the history department of National Taiwan University, and this female student was a student of the history department.She is a young man who loves literature and art, and that is why Father Fang brought her here.At that time, I hadn't edited the supplement, but I often contributed articles to newspapers with a nickname!Since then, this third-year girl who loves literature and art often comes by herself.She often dresses up in jeans and a white shirt, and rides a men's bicycle with a beam. When getting on and off the bike, she stretches her legs and steps up and down from behind.She is not big, healthy and lively, and a bit wild, so I used to jokingly call her a "wild girl" afterwards, and she didn't object. "Wild girl" is very comfortable to come to my house to talk and laugh, but if He Fan is around, she seems unnatural. Maybe He Fan's seriousness in front of strange young people makes people daunting! "Wild Girl" has been calling him "Mr. Serious" in letters to me, until one time (1957) when she read He Fan's essay "A White Hair" published in a literary magazine abroad, the letter did not come. Said: "...Mr. Xia's article "A White Hair" is humorous and elegant. Unexpectedly, Mr. Xia has a serious face, but he is full of humor. I want to change his nickname! Smile." Actually She didn't really change her nickname to Mr. Serious, but after she got married, she believed that her husband was also called "My Mr. Serious".
After talking for a long time, who is this "wild girl"?Yu Lihua is also.She and I have been dating since 1951, nearly 40 years, from her growth, adulthood, maturity, fame, and even becoming a grandmother. The line is broken, but the state of mind knows each other well.Yu Lihua is really one of the unusual literary friends I have made in this life.
In September 1953, Yu Lihua graduated from National Taiwan University and was about to study abroad. I was pregnant with my youngest daughter Zuwei at the time, and I went to see her off with a big belly.When I got to her house, I didn't go in, I just sat on the wooden steps by the lattice door in the porch and had a heart-to-heart talk with her.Since I met her, in addition to exchanging opinions on literature and art—reading, opinions, favorites, etc., other family situations and trivial life are also topics of conversation.She was about to leave, so of course she talked more, when her mother came out, she was startled when she saw it, and blamed her daughter for not asking me, who was pregnant, to sit up.
At that time, most of the international students went abroad by boat, and Lihua was the same. It took nearly two weeks before the boat arrived in Hawaii. She couldn’t resist going ashore and sent me a postcard. The picture was a canoe on the shore of Waikiki, which was in 1953 October 10nd.I still keep her first letter after going abroad. It has been 2 years. Lihua will feel very surprised, right?On a small square letter, her impressions of the sea were written densely and bumpily:
...I have lived on the boat for two weeks, and I have never felt tired of gazing at the never-ending sea. Its color is different day and night. At night, under the starlight, although it feels bigger and more terrifying, it is also more moving. I really hate my clumsy Pen, I can't express my love for it.I often miss you. When I arrived in Honolulu, I bought this picture. I love that quiet beauty very much. Do you like it?I tried to write an article "Sea Journey" in the past two days, but I always felt that the words were not enough. I will send it to you after writing. Promised - don't be lazy, write to me, okay?I value your letters more than those boys write to me.Hope to read your long letter soon after arriving in the United States...
I transcribed it with a magnifying glass, so I took the trouble to record it in full. One is to prove that I have kept letters for decades, which is no less than her habit of keeping a diary since she was 15 years old.In addition, it also shows that although Lihua is going to study abroad, she is still full of writing. From Xiao Fangfang's letter, we can see her literary and artistic atmosphere.Before going abroad, she only wrote a few short essays and published them everywhere, and she was not well-known, but after a few years after going abroad, she achieved her writing goal every month and every month, and she shined brilliantly!When she was studying, writing, getting married, and raising children, she always nagged to "Sister Haiyin" in her letters.
Li Hua went abroad in 1953, and we didn't meet again until 12, 1965 years later, when I was invited to visit the United States. She was already the mother of three children.At the time, her family lived in the town of Evanston, home of Northwestern University, near Chicago.I remember that I flew directly from Boston to Chicago, and as soon as I got out of the airport, I heard a friendly, familiar, and beautiful Shanghai accent "Sister Haiyin"!It turned out that Lihua came to pick me up at the airport in person, and she hugged me, so happy!
Although she is a mother of three children, her temperament has not changed. When I came back from the United States, I wrote a book "A Guest in America", which describes her like this:
…Being a mother in the United States can no longer work, but Lihua happens to be writing at home, so after living in the United States for 12 years, other people's Chinese has deteriorated, but she is diligent in writing, and her works are more exciting than each one.For an American housewife with three children, writing is not something everyone can do!She took me to her house for a day, and I saw two manuscripts with different pages on two desks in her study, so I asked her what was going on?She said that one was translating manuscripts and the other was creating novels, and it was amazing that the two tasks were carried out at the same time.Lihua is really the most diligent female writer. She is young and energetic, and takes care of housework. Sometimes she has to drive five or six times a day to pick up and drop off her children. She is really a dynamic woman...
The above is what I wrote about her more than 20 years ago, and that was also her most prosperous age.After I returned to Taiwan from the United States, I founded the monthly magazine "Pure Literature" in 1967. Lihua and the late female writer Ji Zheng not only submitted the best works to "Pure Literature" for publication overseas, but also attracted subscribers for me overseas. , hired writers I don’t know to write on my behalf, which made this magazine very rich from the very beginning. Lihua is one of the literary friends who have contributed a lot. Ji Zheng wrote the long novel "Over the Sea", and Lihua has several Wonderful short story.
This time it was Yu Lihua who wrote to me saying that she was about to publish a book called "Yu Lihua's Selected Works" (short stories) and asked me to write something for it.She said that this book is a selection of short stories of her important works spanning 20 years, all of which were published in Taiwan, and several of them were published in the monthly magazine "Pure Literature" ("Friendship", "On Liujiazhuang" ), her works have spanned 20 years, and our friendship has spanned nearly 40 years. I seem to have no reason to reject her, but most of the things I have written in the past few years are memoirs. When I write, I just search for information through letters and photos; The articles are always miscellaneous and mother-in-law, but it is more meaningful when my daughter Xia Zuli visits her.
Lihua once asked in a letter (1957) after arriving in the United States: "... have the little sisters grown up? The one with long eyelashes must have looked beautiful?..." The girl with long eyelashes is Xia Zuli, when Lihua went abroad, Zuli was six years old. When I wrote this letter, Zuli was ten years old. But when Lihua returned to Taiwan in 1971, Zuli had already graduated from university and was working as an editor and reporter for Taipei Women’s Magazine. up.
Zuli interviewed sixteen female writers for the women's magazine, and later wrote a book titled "Their World".Zu Li is a hard-working reporter. She only conducts interviews after earnestly studying the writer’s works. Therefore, her works can indeed be interviewed and write the author’s state of mind and thoughts. Now I will extract Yu Lihua’s interview notes written by her. Some works that can represent Lihua's writing, thoughts and concepts, so that readers can have a deeper understanding of Lihua, can also be regarded as our "mother and son"'s common understanding and understanding of her!
◎After going abroad for nearly 20 years, Yu Lihua has changed from a female student to a mother of three children.The life in a foreign country has honed her to be more capable, stronger and more energetic, but she still does not lose her enthusiasm and sensitivity.
◎Yu Lihua's article has a thorough description of human nature and a sharp observation of life.But it always makes people feel that she is more inclined to the dark side of life, and many of her works will make people feel very heavy after reading.
◎In her novels, there are also many conflicts in marriage, conflicts in love, and tragedies of uncombinable love affairs.Her view on marriage is that she does not agree with the marriage system, but believes that before there is no better way, only marriage can maintain the balance between men and women.
◎Yu Lihua is such a frank woman.She once said that no matter what she does, speaks or writes, she relies on her feelings. Her person and her works give people a real feeling, which is one of the reasons why she can deeply attract readers.
◎She is a passionate, sensitive, aggressive, and energetic woman, and her own shadow can be seen more or less in her works.
◎When talking about life, she said: "I think life is a tragedy. Even if there is comedy, it is just the other side of tragedy. But people will not give up reversing the fate of this tragedy. Maybe this is the way people will make progress. "
(End of this chapter)
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